The Ramones
On en parlait dans une précédente émission "Tracks" qu'on vous a déjà conseillé. Même si le public trouvait que cela équivalait à l'installer à Disneyland, le CBGB quitte NYC pour Las Vegas.
Pour rappel, le quartier du CBGB était dans les années 60-70, un des quartiers les plus mal fréquenté. Junkies et Punk à chaque coin de rue. La salle s'est ouverte et a vu défiler un nombre de groupes devenus légendaires incroyable : Blondie, Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, Talking Heads, Agnostic Front, Sheer Terror, Warzone, ... et dernièrement la reformation de Gorilla Biscuits pour un concert de soutien. Un concert de soutien car la salle mythique était menacée par la spéculation immobilliaire qui a fait du quartier un endroit chic ! Hilly Kristal (le propriétaire des lieux) perd donc la bataille et bat en retraite :
"We want to take a lot of this stuff with us, and I think we're going to move to Las Vegas... I have some developers who have some really great space in the downtown area. So, I'd say sometime in spring we'll be in Las Vegas. It's a big undertaking, and these developers are putting the money into it, and I want to make sure that, for my benefit and theirs, we make this work...
I don't have any choice... I have been looking for space in New York and the rent's 125,000 a month on Broadway... [The Vegas CBGB] won't be the same size or the same shape, but I am going to have all the things that matter there. I am taking the bars with me, I am taking the stage — I'm taking the urinal that Joey [Ramone] pissed in with me. I'm going to take a lot of things — anything that makes this place CBGB... I'll make it CBGB, and even more so. I think we can do better, starting in a new place, where the city's for it. It's more important to try to keep things going and moving up."
Pour rappel, le quartier du CBGB était dans les années 60-70, un des quartiers les plus mal fréquenté. Junkies et Punk à chaque coin de rue. La salle s'est ouverte et a vu défiler un nombre de groupes devenus légendaires incroyable : Blondie, Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, Talking Heads, Agnostic Front, Sheer Terror, Warzone, ... et dernièrement la reformation de Gorilla Biscuits pour un concert de soutien. Un concert de soutien car la salle mythique était menacée par la spéculation immobilliaire qui a fait du quartier un endroit chic ! Hilly Kristal (le propriétaire des lieux) perd donc la bataille et bat en retraite :
"We want to take a lot of this stuff with us, and I think we're going to move to Las Vegas... I have some developers who have some really great space in the downtown area. So, I'd say sometime in spring we'll be in Las Vegas. It's a big undertaking, and these developers are putting the money into it, and I want to make sure that, for my benefit and theirs, we make this work...
I don't have any choice... I have been looking for space in New York and the rent's 125,000 a month on Broadway... [The Vegas CBGB] won't be the same size or the same shape, but I am going to have all the things that matter there. I am taking the bars with me, I am taking the stage — I'm taking the urinal that Joey [Ramone] pissed in with me. I'm going to take a lot of things — anything that makes this place CBGB... I'll make it CBGB, and even more so. I think we can do better, starting in a new place, where the city's for it. It's more important to try to keep things going and moving up."
